upcoming guest lectures at Tampere university

[Alejandro_Lorenzo]

Dear All,

below please find information on upcoming guest lectures and North American Studies conference.

For further information please contact sari.pasto@uta.fi.

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*Thu 3 May, 14.15*
Lecture room Pinni B 3107

*Professor William Marling* (Case Western Reserve University) gives a guest lecture on *“Film Noir and Technology”*

William Marling is the author of five books, including The American Roman Noir (1995) and How ‘American?’ is Globalization? (2006)

The lecture is organised by English Philology and North American Studies.
Further information: Markku Salmela (markku.salmela@uta.fi <mailto:markku.salmela@uta.fi>)

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*Wednesday May 9, at 12-14 *
Lecture room Pinni B 3107

*Fulbright Professor (North American Studies)
Cheryl J. Fish* gives a guest lecture on

“Environmental Justice Made Manifest: Toxic Comedy and Resistance in Ruth Ozeki’s My Year of Meats and Judith Helfand’s Blue Vinyl”

Cheryl J. Fish is Associate Professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York. She is the co-editor of A Stranger in the Village: Two Centuries of African American Travel Writing (1999) and the author of Black and White Women's Travel Narratives: Antebellum Explorations (2004).

The lecture is organised by Department of Literature and the Arts.
More information: Toni Lahtinen, toni.lahtinen@uta.fi <mailto:toni.lahtinen@uta.fi>

Welcome!

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*May 24-26, 2007***

The 20th Biennial Nordic Association for American Studies (NAAS) Conference and the 11th Biennial Tampere North American Studies Conference on the theme


*“AMERICAN BODIES, AMERICAN VIOLENCE”*


We aim to answer the question how have different acts and forms of violence influenced North America and the ways in which we represent and imagine North America? And, conversely, how do representations of violence affect how we perceive North America?

More Info: http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/historia/nam2007/

[brumlee]

any free booze?:D